Featuring:

DARRYL WHETTER

AND

JOSH SMITH

DARRYL WHETTER
 
Darryl Whetter’s debut book of fiction was chosen to The Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2003.
 
The Push & the Pull—a novel of sex, death and bicycling—followed in 2008.
 
Recently, he was the Coordinator of the Creative Writing program at Dalhousie University from 2008—2010.
 
 
Darryl has published or presented papers on contemporary literature in France, Sweden, Canada, Germany, the United States, India and Iceland. Nearly 100 of his book reviews have appeared in The National Post, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and the national CBC Radio program Talking Books.
 
He currently teaches at Université Sainte-Anne.
 
 
 
JOSH SMITH

 
Failed metal singer.
Former stand-up comedian.
Four-time Poetry Theme Challenge winner.
Finally Josh Smith has found what he’s good at, and it’s professional poetry.
 
Since 2006, Mrs. Smith’s baby boy has earned his stripes across the continent, performing from the streets of Montreal to the sands of Texas.
 
 
He has featured at Art Bar, Livewords, and is upcoming at several other Toronto series.
 
Josh has been published by Chrysalis Zine as well as Ploughshares.
 

Don’t forget the Hot-Sauced Words MAN-O RHYME-OH ALL MALE OPEN MIC: (6 x three minute spots each show. Sign up at 7:30)

Audience Interaction Positively Encouraged – Stretch your writing skills in the On-The-Spot Poetry Themed Challenge.

ALL SEXES ARE ELIGIBLE TO ENTER THE CHALLENGE!

(ALL MALE Features and Open Mic)

No Admission charge but we do pass the hat.